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THE WEIGHT OF THE UNSEEN
TVCINE

journey that is less about the in- tead, it offers an emotional jour- With its restrained direction,
vestigation itself and more about ney where mourning, doubt, and subtle acting, and writing that
what it unearths: erased memo- the need to believe are intertwi- knows where to leave space, the
ries, ambiguous encounters, and ned. Some episodes are silent, series refuses noise and prefers
phenomena that defy logic, both some are strange, but they all suggestion. It's far from conven-
for the protagonists and for those share the same subtext: the truth tional science fiction—here the-
watching. may be too fragile to be definitive. re are no special effects or grand
explanations. There are people,
«Société distincte» is in no hurry In this uncertain territory—be- absences, and doubts. And it's
to get anywhere. And that's a com- tween faith and obsession, be- precisely this restraint that gives
pliment. The narrative unfolds tween loss and the possibility of it depth. Overall, it's not a series
in layers, constantly shifting be- reunion—the series finds its stron- about aliens. It's a series that ex-
tween what is concrete and what gest point. «Société distincte» is plores the consequences of hol-
is sensed, between what is shown less about what happened to Ga- ding onto the belief that there's
and what is hinted at. The series briel than about how it feels to live still something to uncover, even
avoids easy solutions and doesn't without him. And that, at times, is when everything appears to be
commit to a single reading. Ins- more powerful than any revelation. lost.

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